Toy gun.



P. VINCENT.

TOY GUN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. IQ, 191s.

Patented Oct. 8, 19l8 ATTORNEY ETNKTE sra'rns PATENT uric PERLO VINCENT, 0F GLOVE-RSVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO HUGH MCDONALD, 0F GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

TOY GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

Application filed January 10, 1918. Serial No. 211,306.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERLo VINCENT, a citizen of the United States residing at Gloversville, Fulton county, tate of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Guns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of toys,that resembles fire arms, adapted to discharge missiles against aimed at objects, and its aim is to provide such toys that will be devoid of any tendency to injure the user, that will project missiles characterized by harmlessness a considerable distance, and that will in no way injure a person and articles of furniture, &c., receiving the impact of the projected missiles. A further object is to cause the missiles to automatically return, to the location of discharge, after striking an object or upon falling on, a floor or table.

To attain these desirable features in a shooting toy the missiles or projectiles are light hoops or rings of such a nature and material as to yield to such an extent upon impact as to cause them to rebound from the struck object without damage thereto. A suitable practical operating device for holding'and projecting the hoop missile may be made in imitation of any piece of ordnance, preferably a .pistol or gun; it is provided with a vertical opening or slot into which the hoop is seated, preferably at the under side of the operating device.

The hoop discharging means is of a character to forcibly act on the rear side of the hoop in such manner as to throw it forwardly and at the same time impart thereto rotary motion, whereby the hoop is caused to return to the place of its discharge when it falls on the floor or a table after striking an object. This discharging means may be an elastic cord or band, preferably round, secured to the front end of the operating device and arranged to have its loop placed over the hoop to act against the rear side of the hoop. The stop at the front end of Means are provided, as a trigger device,

for holding the hoop in the slot against the action of the discharging means untll its discharge is desired. This trigger device may be arranged to control the hoop either above or below the slot in which it is held.

The above outlined features with other details of construction will now be fully described by reference had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a side elevation of an embodiment of the invention in the form of a pistol.

Fig. 2, is a bottom plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is a front end view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 illustrates the invention, with certain modified features, applied to an imitation gun or rifle, and:

Fig. 5, is a plan view of Fig. 4:.

The hoop 6, may be made of any suitable light material, as wood, of a yielding nature for the purposes above set forth. The slot 7, the equivalent of the cartridge chamber of a fire arm, in which the hoop is seated, is formed vertically through the stock of the pistol represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and more forwardly through the barrel of the gun represented in Figs. 4 and 5. The propelling spring 8, is shown as a round elastic cord with its ends passed through the holes 9, formed in the end of the barrel and forcibly pressed into narrow slits extending from said holes through the top of the barrel. By this arrangement the propelling spring is securely held and the short ends projecting above the barrel act as a front sight 10.

.The front end of the slot 7, may act as rigid stop for the hoop when the elastic cord 8, is placed over the hoop to embrace the rear side thereof. It is preferred to have an elastic or yielding stop at the front end of the slot, the energy of which isless than that of the propelling springv8, and this yielding stop may be an elastic band 11, held in recesses 12 and 13, near the front and rear ends of the slot respectively, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or a plug or strip of resilient material 1 1-, secured in the recess 12, as shown in Fig.4. The function of the resilient stop is, when the hoop is being discharged, to rearwardly push the upper side of the hoop and so impart, or assist the spring 8, in imparting to the hoop rotary motion, the movement of the upper side of the hoop being opposite in direction to its line of flight.

The hoop is firmly held between the discharging spring and the stop during the time the gun is loaded.

The trigger device for holding the hoop against the propelling force of the spring 8, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, consists of a strip of metal suitably formed to produce a finger piece 15, a front bar 16, adapted to bear against the hoop and a spring 17 slit from the finger piece 15, formed to seat against the handle 18, of the pistol stock, so as to press the bar 16, on the hoop with suflicient force to hold it in placed position against the resiliency of the spring, which tends to discharge the hoop from the gun when its loop'is set against the rear side of the hoop.

19, designates a screw or nail which holds the trigger on the stock and on which the trigger rocks, and 20, a guide pin extending through a slot in thetrigger. The bar 16, may be made shorter and arranged with its end located just beneath the bend of the spring 8, as indicated by the dottedlines 21, whereby the spring will be held inactive by the spring trigger. Pressure on the finger piece 15, releases the spring 8, allowing it to discharge the hoop. In the modification Figs. 4 and 5, the trigger is constructed and arranged to slide against the under side of the stock 22, which has a vertical slot 23, through which extends an arm 24, at the forward end of the plate 25, of the trigger. This plate is held against the under side of the stock by straps or staples 26. The finger piece 27 carries a spring 28, formed to bear against the rear end of the slot 23, to normally press the arm toward or against the front end of the slot. The hoop 6, in this case, is held in its slot against the action of the spring 8, .by a spring catch located to bear on the inner side of the hoop just above the top of the gun. This catch may be made of spring wire lying along the top of the gun. It has a hoop retaining hook 29, at its front end, and its rear end is connected to the arm 24%, of the trigger. One or more guides, as

staples .30, is or are provided through which the wire isfree to slide. Thedistance between the hoop and the front guide is such as to allow the wire to spring sufficiently for the hook to slip off the hoop when the trigger is pulled 31, designates a guard for the trigger.

This toy. will still be effective should the trigger device become inoperative; then the operator may oppose activity of the propelling spring 8, by pressing a finger against the hoop and so hold the hoop in the slot until its discharge is desired; in fact the trigger may in some cases be omitted.

I wish it understood that I do not confine my invention to the particular construction and arrangement of the devices shown and described; and that mechanical changes and m di cat n h ing the iun t e s o said through it adapted to receive and hold a circular missile, a stop at the frontend: ofthe opening, a projector adapted to be actively set against the rear side of the circular missile and hold its front side against the stop and means for resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force ofthe projector on the circular missile.

2. A toy gun, having an opening formed through it adapted to receive andhold a circular missile, a stop at the front end of the opening, a projector adapted to be set against the rear side of the missile and press its front side against the stop, the arrangement being such that the circular missile will, by rolling over the stop, be rotated when discharged from the gun by the proj ector, and means for resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force of the .proj ector on the circular missile.

8. A toy, comprising a light yielding hoop, an operating device having an opening in which the hoop may be seated at the under side of the operating device, a projector adapted to be actively set to press againstthe rear side of the yielding hoop,

and meansresisting and, at will, releasing the. propelllng force of the projector onthe yielding hoop. V r

5. A toy, comprising a light circular missile, an operating device having an' opening in whichthe missile mjay be seated, a projector adapted to be actively set to press againstthe rear side of the circular missile to impart thereto rotary motion when it is discharged from the operating device by the projector, a resilientstop at the front end of the opemng and whlch yields as the missile is forcedaga nst it by the projector and by reaction assists in rotating' the missile, and means resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force of the projector on the circular missile. i

A y, ompr in a l ght c cul r n sile, an operating device having an opening in which h m s le may be e ed; a Projector adapted to be actively set to" ,press against the rear side offihe circular missile,

a resilient stop at the front end of the opening against which the forward side of the missile bears and which reacts on the missile to cause its upper side to rotate reversely to its line of flight when it is discharged from the operating device, and means resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force of the projector on the circular missile.

7. A shooting toy, comprising an operating device having a holding handle and a vertical opening adapted to hold ahoop missile, a resilient projector attached to the operating device and adapted to be set to press against the rear side of the hoop and by its propelling force to discharge the hoop from the operating device, the arrangement of parts being such that a finger of the operator by pressure on the hoop will hold the hoop in the slot against the propelling action of the projector.

8. A shooting toy, consisting of an operating device having a. slot adapted to hold the circular missile partly exposed and an elastic loop secured to the front end of the operating device and adapted to be passed over and press against the rear side of the exposed part of the circular missile and means for resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force of the projector on the circular missile.

9. A shooting toy, consisting of an operating device having a slot adapted to hold a hoop partly exposed, an elastic loop secured to the front end of the operating device and adapted to be passed over and press against the rear side of the exposed part of the hoop, and a stop at the front end of the slot against which the hoop is pressed by the elastic loop. 7

10. A shooting toy, consisting of an operating device having a slot adapted to hold a hoop partly exposed, an elastic loop secured to the front end of the operating device and adapted to be passed over and press against the rear side of the exposed part of the hoop, a stop at the front end of the slot against which the hoop is pressed by the elastic loop, and a trigger at the under side of the operating device formed to hold the hoop against action of the elastic loop and, at will, release the hoop.

11. A shooting toy, consisting of an operating device having a slot adapted to hold the hoop partly exposed and having two holes in its front end with slits extending therefrom to the top of the operating device, and an elastic cord having its ends passed through said holes and held in the slits, and its loop adapted to be passed over and bear against the rear side of the hoop, the endsof the elastic cord extending above the operating device affording a front sight.

12. A shooting toy, comprising a hoop, an operating device having a slot adapted to hold the hoop partly exposed, an elastic cord secured to the front end of the operating device and adapted to have its loop passed over and press against the rear side of the exposed part of the hoop, and a resilient stop at the front endof the slot against which the hoop is pressed by the elastic cord.

13. A shooting toy, comprising an operating device having a slot adapted to hold a circular missile partly exposed, an elastic cord secured to the front end of the operating device and adapted to have its loop passed over and press against the rear side of the exposed part of the hoop, a stop for the forward part of the circular missile located at the front end of the slot, the arrangement of parts being such that the propelling force of the elastic cord, when released, on the exposed part of the circular missile will throw the missile forwardly around the stop as a center, thereby causing it to rotate, as and for the purpose set forth, and means for resisting and, at will, releasing the propelling force ofthe elastic cord on the circular missile.

Signed at Gloversville, Fulton county, State of New York, this 7th day of January, 1918.

PERLO VINCENT. Inthe presence of- FRANCIS Hnnnrox,

HARRY W. SOHUMANN, Jr.

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